Improvement in moulding-plane



following is a full, clear,

pass, by which the bit is fastened, and by which,-when e aggle W- fittest ge ntmt (time.

ee/a awed A. W. MAXWELL, OF MILTON; PENNSYLVANIA Letters Patent No. 86,851, dated Feb many 9, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOULDING- PLANE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To allwhom it may concern: convexity being greater or less, in different. planes, to

B i known that I MAXWELL-7 f file bor. suit the nature of the work expected'to be done. ough of Milton, county of Northumberland, and State The eehtl'e'heenhg ehfllhles the workmen to of Pennsylvania, .have invented a new and useful tool for moulding wood, which I call A Reversible Hand Wold plemng ae'mnstthe gr Ofthe w to make Moulding-Plane; and 1 do hereby declare that the t emheth'fihish t t end the material; and @011 and exact description f the sists of a convex ridge, or bear1ng,running transversely construction and operation of the same, reference .being across the middle of the P dividing the hit 6 lg had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, injvhicha which sect10ns,-th e plane being reversed, make exactly Figure 1 is a view representing the bettemfi'i -the the semelmlhesslehe P the WOOdplane, a d The bit els a double bit, the one half of which is Fi r 2, th t the reversed duplicate of the other, and is fastened to Letter a represents the convex centre-bearing. the yh the Plane by the Screws P. r e g l g b, th k if nd f th bit, the openings (1, so as to allow the bit 0 to be moved or c, the screws by which the bit is fastened to the body adjusted at P e v v, f the l What I claun, and desire to secure by Letters Pat-' d, the openings in the bit, through which the screws s The moulding-tool herein shown and described, when all the parts are constructed and arranged to operate as represented, and for the purpose set forth.

unfastened, the bit may slide upor down.

' A. w. MAXWELL.

e, the bit. f, the handles of the plane.

g, the throat, partially seen, of the plane, through Witnesses: 1 which the shavings of the wood pass. FRANKLIN BOUND,

The bottom of the plane is convex, the degree .of M. YOENT.

verse the plane when he desires, as, for instancato VJ tuclinally into two equal parts, the knives of both of 

